decryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈkɹaɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ

動詞

decry (三人称単数 現在形 decries, 現在分詞 decrying, 過去形および過去分詞形 decried)

1. (transitive) To denounce as harmful.
   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 99:

     All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense.

   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, pg. 474:

     While decrying bureaucracy and demanding participatory democracy they, themselves, frequently attempt to manipulate the very group of workers, blacks or students on whose behalf they demand participation.

2. (transitive) To blame for ills.

参照

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 114
• decry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• decry in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• decry at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• cedry, cyder